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Johnson and George Lewis or, on the other hand, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.
At the present time, in this field, Humphrey Lyttleton and his Band are the most famous with numerous broadcasts, television programmes and concerts, and their records are extremely popular with the fans ("Humph at the Conway" on Parlophone PMD 1012). Vieing with Humph for popularity is the Chris Barber Jazz Band (Nixa NJT 502).
Finally, a curious offshoot of these present-day revivalist bands is the "Skiffle Session" which achieved an amazing popularity when Lonnie Donegal s concert recording of "Rock Island Line" (Decca F 10647) accidentally gained a popular release and pleased the great General Public. This style of music bears little relationship to genuine skiffle music which flourished in Chicago during the 'twenties and early 'thirties. It combines, like Rock 'n Roll, a curious mixture of negro blues and songs and Hillbilly presentation.
The future is evidently in the hands of, first, the East Coast negro experimenters who, unlike white colleagues on the West Coast of America, are keeping closer to the original patterns of negro jazz. Secondly, affecting the "revivalists" through the work of men like Humphrey Lyttleton in England and Eddie Condon in America, the "Mainstream" style is proving not only popular with collectors, but fruitful to musicians.
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